Excellent write up Seabreeze. The two Moruya sites (Moruya Heads and Moruya Airport) offer an even more dramatic comparison, as do the two Coonabarabran sites which Blair often mentions here.

My personal view is that AWS' should be situated in locations that offer the best representation of an area as a whole. Frost hollows and urban heat islands are interesting for folk like us, but they don't really represent what the average punter experiences. I recognise that finding these optimal sites is pretty difficult in practice.

The "Kempsey" site currently at Wide Street has moved around a lot over the years, with some of the locations being several kilometres out of town, so it's not a lot of use for looking at long-term trends.

P.s Just realised how young you are reillyp from info u posted. Talk about 'out of the mouth of babes.' Good onya mate for getting stuck into the weather stuff and for keepin the forum chuggin along. Not easy keeping an old school type of forum chuggin with farcebook grabbing our ever decreasing attention spans.

Thanks Wind Junkie and Dave. WJ, I understood your phrase after I looked it up hahaha Yeah all the social media these days is taking the focus off forums.

The cold air arrived here at around 9:30 and the wind came up and the temp dropped. Certainly was cool today, but it did feel quite nice in a way

And it's also amazing just how low the DP's are. Certainly a very dry cold front for this side of the ranges. Probably the lowest DP's yet this year in the Illawarra and other places too.

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Cracking day, even if i tortured myself for 18 holes. The high today was 23.2c, temp still about 18c but you can really feel the wind chill.Wind was strong enough to knock a tree and power lines down earlier this arvo when the change came through.

Yeah was warm indeed, just up the road at Taree reached 24.8c, if you look at there obs the wind was SW for a short while in the morning and that was pretty much the same here, actually that SW breeze here was a short term gale, then became a gentle NW breeze till the change came through roughly about 2.30.

Is that a change moving through Western Sydney? Temp dropped by 3 degrees in 20 minutes in Penrith with winds picking up to 20 knots gusting to 36. Drops of nearly 4 degrees at Camden to 6.9. Richmond still 'warm' at 11.4.

Over 12 now. Breeze a little more from west. Air so dry. Pterygium in my left eye always flares up when its so dry.Yes reillyp. I would trade just one decent ECL for a thousand @@@ull$$it fronts. Back to boring light winds with coldish nights and still warm days. Simply no challenge

Couldn't agree more WJ this is so boring, This winters has been a total fizzer for the coast, I know you love the cold tho WJ but now im just waiting for mid this month to see spring conditions slowly creeping back, I need a good storm! you could say im withdrawing like a Storm Junkie Hahah

Currently 13.6 at 12:10 doubt it will get over 15 today quiet breezy too. Maybe a shower later although chances look slim?

Edit: sorry Reilly just scrolled up and saw you basically covered what I had to say